00:25 - KarlabosMost videos are all about just adding random images to the song though, so...

00:22 - KarlabosSome videos aren't bad. But an ok video is not a good video. A good video would be something that adds to the song. In a way after you've seen it you can't help but to feel only listening to the song isn't enough anymore

23:53 - ApothecaryI mean welcome to artists trying to be theatrical lol there's always going to be some degree of cheese in music videos, even if it's .0001% cheese

01. Suffocated02. My Heart Is A Tomb03. Into The Black Light04. Lost In A Loop05. 22:22 - Nihil06. Architect Of New Beginnings07. Birth08. Concealed Revulsions09. Secrets Of The Earth10. A Storm Inside11. Liar [first edition bonus]

Atmospheric Sludge, Melodic Doom/Death, Progressive Death Metal, whatever... This Finnish quintet (occasionally supported by Aleksi Munter of Swallow the Sun fame) has tried to stay away from the typical limitations of modern genre debates that happen in music communities.

If their 2007 debut, "Guided by Fire" is considered to be raw and touching, "Isolation Songs" clearly reflects the maturity and the prowess of their songwriting, often believed to be influenced by European Doom/Gothic/Dark bands such as Katatonia or Paradise Lost. However, I believe it would be a waste of time if we put so much effort into Comparison and investigation to see where their influences come from.

There's something about this album that makes you want to play it again and again. Isolation Songs is very addictive indeed, with a multitude of catchy riffs and hooks. Each song is separately memorable, but they also work very well as a whole, flowing naturally from one into another, balancing between being aggressively rough and hauntingly melancholic, with a lot of acoustic passages and clean vocals. Isolation Songs sounds like a cross between Dark Tranquillity and Porcupine Tree, with a unique powerful atmosphere that lingers long after the last song stops.

MONUMENTAL. This album changed my life. Incredible work. If you've been thirsting for something beautiful, this is it.

Did you pick up Guided By Fire too? Same formula...excellant stuff!

I sure did. Guided by Fire is phenomenal. Not quite as good as Isolation Songs, but definitely a must-have. Their music is so moving, and I can really deeply relate to their lyrics. I can't wait until the next one.

This has by far been the most beautiful new gem I have discovered this year. Saw them live during a concert with Amorphis and I was thouroughly impressed. I bought their latest album there + a shirt and that's the best CD buy I did in quite a while!

Heavy clear voice mixed with strong growls and excellent guitarwork. What more can one ask?

This one is slowly working its way to the top of my favourite albums of all time. It's been on constant rotation in my car and at home for over one year. It's the first time I can listen to an album several times in a row since I discovered Master Of Puppets, Seasons In The Abyss and Vulgar Display Of Power back in 1994. Some days it's the only thing I listen to. I have no idea why this particular album clicked with me like that...

Ghost Brigade is one of that special bands, their music so rejuvenating, makes me feel so good. This album its so addictive and profound, I just forget everything thats around me and focus only in the music and just a few albums can do that to me.

It's not the genre or some attribute of the music, but as i listened very carefully all songs are very same, same structure, same pace, same feeling, the fragments of melodies are endless variations of the same few tones. There is no point, no concept, no surprise.

It's not the genre or some attribute of the music, but as i listened very carefully all songs are very same, same structure, same pace, same feeling, the fragments of melodies are endless variations of the same few tones. There is no point, no concept, no surprise.

Funny that you should say that because I think the songs are DEFINITELY not the same or similar to an unhealthy extent. Of course, there is a unifying pattern (the mood, in particular) but I would never go so far as to say that the slower songs with (predominantly) clear vocals are the same as the fast ones... Just compare Into the Black Light [one of many songs with more than just 'fragments' of melody, I daresay] with, say, Suffocated. Do you hear the same, 'very same' songs, structure, pace and feeling? C'mon!